ferry

A renowned management consulting firm which does the analytics on the ferry ticket prices, booking data, and seats availability from different ferry websites.

CHALLENGE

The organization was facing key business challenge in terms of defining the right approach and strategy to monitor and compare the price on multiple ferry sites with multiple combinations Journey Type, multiple O&Ds combinations, various length of Stay and other available packages.

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SOLUTION

X-Byte had offered robust Price Comparison solution to monitor the pricing from 5 different Ferry websites that includes 1.63 million searches per website in a week. Solution was been able to scrape millions of data on a daily basis, including embedded QA and automatic data delivery.

X-BYTE SOLUTION

Setting up the Crawler The crawler was initially configured such that it could automatically scrape product price and essential data fields for present categories on a daily basis.

Data Template : A template was created utilizing data structuring based on the schema provided by the customer.

Delivery of Data : Without any manual input from either side, the closing data was supplied in an XML format through Data API regularly.

The dataset had all the information including comments, news timelines, most viewed articles, customer behaviour, etc. All of the scraped data was indexed using hosted indexing components, and search APIs were made available so that a client could get the results every few minutes.

IMPACT

  •  Monitor, compare and review competitive pricing seamlessly
  • Single platform to cover the scraping, analysis and comparison
  •  Reduced time to respond to market with successful market strategy
  •  Consistent solution delivers accurate and timely data 365 X 7 days
  •  Given room to incorporate multiple pricing comparison reports
  •  Improvement in ROI by minimizing the overhead cost
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